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It is just plainly hypocritical to have psychiatric care at Guantánamo. The single purpose of that institution is to destroy people on the inside and outside.

• TazeTSchnitzel 10y ago
  In that kind of environment, I imagine the psychiatrists could only make things worse.
  • pavlov 10y ago
    Reminds me of Peter Gabriel's 1982 song "Wallflower": "Loaded questions From clean white coats Their eyes are all as hidden As their Hippocratic Oaths" The song is painfully truthful still.
  • fucking_tragedy 10y ago
    Psychologists were recruited in order to build the protocol for breaking a person. Not safety protocols or whatnot, but they used their knowledge to permanently render people insane. It isn't a stretch to assume psychotropic drugs were used to torture the prisoners as well. https://www.rt.com/usa/318581-lawsuit-cia-torture-psychologist/ https://www.rt.com/usa/318581-lawsuit-cia-torture-psychologi...
• maxerickson 10y ago
  They don't care if you think they are hypocrites, they are believers in their own righteousness. I wonder, do people broadly take away this message from Serenity? Not the slick-talkin space cowboys are cool message, the message about believing. The theme is repeated in the movie, but it's directly delivered by Shepherd Book. He labels the government antagonist as a believer. He literally says to Mal I don't care what you believe in, just believe in it. In the end, the only thing that stops the believer is having his entire world torn down. But yeah, it's pretty hypocritical.
  • jsight 10y ago
    I took a completely different message from Serenity. Shepherd new what Mal believed in and was encouraging him to stand for it. Up until that point in the film, he had behaved as if he were just a leaf on the wind. I'm not sure that Shepherd's advice would have been the same had Mal believed differently.
    • maxerickson 10y ago
      That is kind of what I mean with believer, someone who is driven by their beliefs (rather than drifting or whatever).